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Bezig met laden... Dydeetown Worlddoor F. Paul Wilson
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Short, but another superb stand-alone novel from the master. ( ) F. Paul Wilson is best known for his horror fiction, particularly his bestselling vampires-among-the-Nazis, The Keep. I rather enjoyed that pot-boiler, but I like his LaNague Federation novels much more. This counts as fourth in the series chronologically, and if you're read the others you'll recognize features in the background. But it shares no characters with the other books and can be read as a standalone. In fact, in a lot of ways this makes the best introduction for the general reader. The first three novels, An Enemy of the State, Wheels Within Wheels and Healer are pretty explicitly libertarian science fiction, but here such themes are much more subtle. This takes place on a future Earth with very strict population control laws. You get one child and that's it--even if the child should die soon after birth. You can use your one-child allotment to have a clone--not of yourself necessarily, but say a famous person--this novel involves a clone of Jean Harlow. But they're not considered real people--they're slaves, owned by the person who had them cloned. And "extra" children, "urchins" not authorized by the state are non-persons as well. If their parents try to raise them, they're executed. The parents only option is to give them up to child gangs that live on the streets. Enter into this world Siggy Dreyer, private eye. This is science-fiction all right, but it's also hard-boiled detective story--or at least its voice is, and I have to admit I don't particularly care for that genre at all, so it took me a while to warm up to this book--but I did in the end: it's a good yarn. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Welcome to the future ... Where the cream of humanity has left for the outworlds, leaving the rest behind; where genetically redesigned T-rexes have supplanted pit bulls; population control measures have created an underclass of Urchins, unlicensed children who have no rights-not even the right to exist; where wireheads with chips in their brains live vicariously through the downloaded experiences of others; and where the UN has been turned into a brothel known as Dydeetown, peopled by clones of famous personalities from history and entertainment. Where a Dydeetown clone of Jean Harlow asks a down-and-out private eye named Sig Dreyer to find her missing lover. Though Sig loathes the idea of working for a clone, Harlow-c is paying in gold, and that's hard to turn down. Just a missing-person case ... should be simple enough. But neither realizes that Sig's investigation will tip the first domino in a cascade of events that will turn their world upside down. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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